In the last 48 hours, I've learned of two blogs -- sites which I would have described as considerably popular -- shuttering their doors and calling it a day. Both blogs have been around for 7 or 8 years, long enough that it was easy to imagine that they would never disappear. For this reason, the fact that both have come to an end came as a bit of a shock.

Sad-but-ultimately-good. This is what you would hope to hear, I think, from someone who had made the considered decision that it was time to move on, to evolve: sadness about an ending, but ultimately good about a new beginning.